Abridged Dewey Decimal Classification and Relative Index

by Dewey, Melvil; Mitchell, Joan S.; Beall, Julianne; Martin, Giles; Matthews, Winton E.; New, Gregory R.

• ISBN13: 9780910608732
• ISBN10: 0910608733
• Edition: 14th
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2004-01-01
• Publisher: OCLC

Table of Contents

Foreword by the Decimal Classification Editorial Policy Committee	ix
Preface and Acknowledgments	xiii
New Features in Abridged Edition 14	xvii
Introduction to the Dewey Decimal Classification	xxiii
About the Introduction	xxiii
Classification: What It Is and What It Does	xxiii
History, Current Use, and Development of the Dewey Decimal Classification	xxiii
Overview of the Dewey Decimal Classification	xxiv
Conceptual Framework	xxiv
Notation	xxvi
Principle of Hierarchy	xxvi
Classifying with the DDC	xxvii
Determining the Subject of a Work	xxvii
Determining the Discipline of a Work	xxviii
More Than One Subject in the Same Discipline	xxviii
More Than One Discipline	xxix
Table of Last Resort	xxx
How Abridged Edition 14 Is Arranged	xxx
Key Features of the Schedules and Tables	xxxi
Summaries	xxxi
Entries	xxxi
Notes	xxxii
Number Building	xxxvii
Citation and Preference Order	xl
Citation Order	xl
Preference Order	xli
The Manual	xli
Arrangement and Format of the Manual	xli
The Relative Index	xlii
Arrangement and Format of the Relative Index	xliii
Interdisciplinary Numbers	xliii
Terms Included in the Relative Index	xliv
Terms Not Included in the Relative Index	xliv
Options	xlv
Close and Broad Classification	xlvi
More Information	xlvi
Glossary	xlvii
Index to the Introduction and Glossary	lvii
Manual	1	(110)
Notes on Table Numbers	3	(16)
Notes on Schedule Numbers	19	(92)
Relocations and Discontinuations	111	(4)
Relocations	111	(3)
Discontinuations	114	(1)
Tables	115	(62)
Standard Subdivisions	117	(11)
Geographic Areas, and Persons	128	(38)
Subdivisions for Individual Literatures, for Specific Literary Forms	166	(6)
Subdivisions of Individual Languages	172	(5)
Summaries	177	(12)
Schedules	189	(630)
Computer science, information, general works	191	(41)
Philosophy, parapsychology and occultism, psychology	232	(26)
Religion	258	(41)
Social sciences	299	(180)
Language	479	(17)
Natural sciences and mathematics	496	(67)
Technology (Applied sciences)	563	(101)
The arts Fine and decorative arts	664	(80)
Literature (Belles-lettres) and rhetoric	744	(19)
History, geography, and auxiliary disciplines	763	(56)
Relative Index	819	(1)
Abbreviations Used in the Index	820	(1)
A--Z	821